The Framers Forum

You are cutting Ash, not a pre-finished moulding!!!! Don't worry about a few microscopic imperfections, they will go with a tiny bit of filler and a neat sand down. Don't go for a razor sharp 90 degrees, give it a bit of softness by 'knocking off' the corners with 240 sandpaper. Regarding joining, d...

1. Don't be scared. 2. Try to replicate the problem on a glossy page of an old colour magazine. Use this to experiment. 3. Rub it with your finger. Sometimes it just rolls into a ball and rolls away. 4. Rub it with a paper towel, in small dabbing motions, not a wipe, which may result in a bigger sme...

Zinc White is a team of seven, one of the busiest picture framing businesses in South London, working for galleries, artists and private customers. We are looking for a framer to join our team. Experience in framing and art handling is essential, fresh ideas and approaches are welcome, we are contin...

For glass there's a delicate balance between being thick enough to protect your hands from cuts, but thin enough to handle the glass, T square and cutter comfortably. I recommend these, from Brewer's paints, Painters L/weight PU Grip Gloves L/XL NL05502515. They're white, so you can see the dirt. I ...

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Does anyone know a manufacturer who can make welded and polished aluminium frames. Not a London framer like Darbyshire or JJ.
Thanks

Try these

https://www.lionpic.co.uk/supplies/fram ... s-offsets/

For anything in between the offset heights, pack out/up with a tiny square of card.

Hi Timeless Fusionframer has covered most of the issues, I agree with what he's said. Feel the weight of he wood as you pick it up. You'll soon get to know a piece that is 'relatively' light or 'relatively' heavy compared with other pieces in the same batch. This rule works for softwood too. The 're...

We're a busy framing business in Putney, currently looking for some new team members. Check out our website (http://www.zinc-white.co.uk) for the kind of work we do. If you like the look of us, get in touch. Ian@zinc-white.co.uk

How about this?
AR glass on the front, 3mm acrylic on the back.

If you have small bubbles that won't push to the edge, don't press them into a crescent, make the tiniest hole with a pin prick so that the air can escape. You may notice the pin prick but it's unlikely anyone else will! If you totally screw up, stand the artwork on it's end and pour a stream of lig...

We want to enhance and grow our successful bespoke framing business. We are looking for a talented framer with a minimum of five years experience You will be committed to your framing career and ambitious for personal progress; and you have a desire to oversee managerial aspects of a framing busines...

Start at the back and move forward, works for me

Hi fellow framers.

Does anyone recognise this frame. I've searched all my catalogues and can't find anything like it.

Thanks

Surely one has to buy a copy of Filemaker Pro to run the pricing software... no?

We're looking for a full time, talented, imaginative framer, with at least four years experience. We are a very busy Framery in Putney, working on a variety of interesting projects, for local artists, international artists and galleries. Salary up to 25k. Please send your CV and covering email to Ia...

Gillthepainter... you say "I seem to be able to make the first cut. But the second either leaves a shard, or really does not make a clean cut of it." If I am understanding your statement correctly, this may be your most fundamental error. You should only ever score once! Nice, firm and eve...

Has anyone seen this happen to a Morso blade. It was being used by one of our team on a Morso EH and the time. Supposedly just cutting a piece of pine!

Re Roboframers solution. Agree, specialist acrylic fabricators are always best for a "flamed" edge, whereby they melt the edge of acrylic so that it is as transparent as the face. However it is relatively easy to do it yourself. After drilling leave the protective plastic on both sides of ...

Another way of achieving the same result is to paint on the black paint and then just rub the corners away with a damp rag before it dries. You can use the same technique with a large frame (which may have dried by the time you've painted regular emulsion all around it) by mixing a little Floetrol w...

Thanks for your time looking into this Roboframer. That's a really interesting call... and very possibly correct. As you may expect, I don't actually have a piece of the moulding, I'm trying to match it from my customer's photo. I will send them the DJ Simons picture, and let you know whether you ar...